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That fragile civilian government will inherit formidable problems. Famine still afflicts almost one out of every five Sudanese. In addition, the country must cope with more than 650,000 refugees who have fled famine and war in neighboring countries. Repaying the $9 billion foreign debt piled up by Nimeiri will prove equally difficult. In February the International Monetary Fund, citing the government's inability to repay more than $200 million in overdue loans, took the unusual step of declaring Sudan ineligible for additional assistance. The economic pinch forced Suwar al Dahab's 15-member ruling Transitional Military Council to increase...
...have to hand the reins of the Anthropology Department's social Anthropology wing to one of her colleagues. And, finally, husband and Dunster House co-Master Cresap Moore will inherit most of the administrative duties connected with the job they share...
Jewett will inherit a job that also will require him to oversee the completion of a $27 million renovation project to two Radcliffe Quadrangle Houses, monitor the development of the Harvard Foundation, an organization set up to coordinate the affairs of minority students at Harvard, and constantly respond to an upsurge in student protests against University investments in South Africa...
...degrees of resistance. In Texas, fighting broke out between Vietnamese shrimpers, who began arriving in force in the late 1970s, and the American fishermen who were already there. More often, the newcomers move into occupations that other groups are leaving. The immigrants are thus frequently like younger siblings who inherit the possessions of their older brothers and sisters...
During the second trial's opening statements in April, the prosecution told the jury it would show that Von Bulow had sought to murder the heiress so he could inherit the millions he was promised in her will and marry his then mistress, former Soap Opera Actress Alexandra Isles. But some of the promised proof was never introduced. With carefully crafted motions, raising such issues as relevance and prosecutorial failure to lay necessary legal groundwork, Puccio persuaded Judge Corinne Grande to exclude Sunny von Bulow's will, testimony from her financial adviser and evidence that Von Bulow knew...